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Banivanua-Mar, Tracey, 1974-

Violence and colonial dialogue the Australian-Pacific indentured labor trade / [electronic resource] : Tracey Banivanua-Mar. - Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, c2007. - x, 270 p. : ill., maps.

Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-259) and index.

Introduction : violence, language, and colonial dialogue -- The frontiers : savages, going native, and the rightness of might -- Survival, arrival, and growth : the world islanders built -- The settler colony : Kanakas, Blacks, and racial borderlands -- South Sea islanders resisting Kanakas : identity, consciousness, and community to 1906 -- The state : inside colonial violence, law, and order -- Bulimen, hardwork, and muscular tension -- Conclusion : structural continuity and the violence of forgetting.


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Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Indentured servants--History.--Australia--Queensland
Sugar workers--History.--Australia--Queensland
Sugar trade--History.--Australia--Queensland
Pacific Islanders--History.--Australia--Queensland

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Australia--Race relations.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD4875.A85 / B35 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 331.11/73